By Newsroom
16th March 2021
Former presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu has been forcefully driven to his home in Magere by a joint security team of the army and the police.
The National Unity Platform president had indicated that his party was to deliver a petition to the Chief of Defense Forces-CDF, Gen. David Muhoozi to demand the release of his supporters who were illegally detained. Immediately after the press conference that took place at his offices in Kamwokya, the army and the police surrounded the premises checking every car that left the building.
After about an hour, Kyagulanyi who was being driven by NUP Secretary-General, David Lewis Rubongoya, was forcefully dragged out of the car and put into a police truck that sped off at breakneck speed towards his home in Magere.
Speaking to reporters before they drove out of the premises, Rubongoya said Kyagulanyi had no intentions of personally taking the petition to the CDF. He said other party leaders led by Dr Lina Zedriga, the NUP vice president for Northern Uganda would deliver the petition.
During the press conference, Kyagulanyi said it was within his right to go to the army headquarters to see the CDF and the minister of Defense Adolf Mwesige even without an appointment because they occupy public offices which must be open to serve everyone who goes there.
By press time, the team that had gone to Mbuya to deliver the petition had yet to be allowed access to the CDF.
Meanwhile, Kyagulanyi has also called upon the government to lift the nighttime curfew which runs from 9 pm-5:30 am, arguing that there is no causation between the spread of COVID-19 and the crippling curfew.
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